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Redeployment
Redeployment. That’s what they call it when you go back home. Here the 1063rd Support Maintenance Company of the Montana National Guard stages their personal gear for redeployment after an 11 month long deployment to U.S. Central Command in 2022. This was the first time that I had seen some of them smile for months. Others were noxiously happy everyday. The soldiers supported well known areas such as Iraq or Saudi, but also areas that today would sound much more familiar to the general public of the US, but at the time were largely ignored in day to day life unless you...
How should you celebrate Memorial Day? You don’t.
I don’t want anyone to feel like I’m lecturing here or trying to be better than. Quite the opposite; I’m jealous. I wish that I could think about this holiday with the joyful innocence that they did, but I cannot. So in order to help educate (and maybe just feel a little better about myself) I thought I’d break down two things: what Memorial Day actually is and why the heck do we BBQ and “celebrate” during it.